{"id":18895,"date":"2021-12-14T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T00:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=18895"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:10:01","slug":"mango-mambo-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/18895","title":{"rendered":"Mango, Mambo, and Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mango, Mambo, and Murder<\/a><\/em> (2021) Raquel V. Reyes (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery)<\/p>\n

\"Mango<\/a>Miriam Qui\u00f1ones-Smith has finished her PhD in food anthropology, but instead of becoming an author or education, she has moved back to Miami, where her husband was able to find a better paying job closer to support from his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a food anthropologist.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou dig up old food?\u201d Ileana asked. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I \u2026 I \u2026\u201d I\u2019d never had it put that way before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, some of that family is Robert’s not-so-subtly racist mother, who won’t even call her godson by his given name.<\/p>\n

The mother-in-law is a piece of work, and you want to punch her in the throat the entire book. Luckily, some people notice how terrible she is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not happy with the way Aunt Marjory treated you tonight. She should have set a place for you at the table. She has more chairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She is truly awful. And I am positive there are plenty of existing humans out there exactly like her.<\/p>\n

When she gets a part-time job offer she thinks things might be better until she witnesses a young woman die at a luncheon. And then another woman die at at a seminar. And then her best friend is accused of murder.<\/p>\n

Although this is a murder mystery, it is also about Miriam finding her place in the world, both as a mother and daughter, and a woman whose life plans were upended and she has to decide who she wants to become.<\/p>\n

Also, there is a TON of cooking, and there are recipes in the back! I do wish we had a greater variety of restaurants in this area, because I now want to try Cuban food.<\/p>\n

It was a good story and had a huge variety of characters and I would like to read another like this.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Reyes (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery) Miriam Qui\u00f1ones-Smith has finished her PhD in food anthropology, but instead of becoming an author or education, she has moved back to Miami, where her husband was able to find a better paying job closer to support from his family. \u201cI\u2019m a food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,190,292,48,24,204,44,8,510],"tags":[622,616,623],"class_list":["post-18895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-female","category-food","category-good","category-hispanic","category-mystery","category-own-voices","tag-caribbean-kitchen","tag-cooking","tag-raquel-v-reyes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-4UL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25583,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25583","url_meta":{"origin":18895,"position":0},"title":"Mango, Mambo, and Murder, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"December 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Mango, Mambo, and Murder, Audio Book (2021) Raquel V. 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